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book is a compilation of selected stories, essays, and reminiscences that Dorothy West wrote for the Vineyard Gazette from thes to the earlys.
In these entries, West retraces life on the island as she experienced it from, when she was an infant, towhen she wrote her final column, Born inin Boston, Dorothy West went on to develop into a prizewinning author by the time she was in her teens, Theaward she received in New York, and the lure of the city itself, inspired West to leave Boston and join what was then a fledgling literary movement that would evolve into the Harlem Renaissance.
She circulated among what in essence was the black literary "royalty" of her times, of which she was a signal member, By the mids West had returned to Massachusetts, to Martha's Vineyard, She began to write a column for the local paper about the comings and goings of island residents and visitors, It was her column in the Gazette that drew the attention of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who, on one of her island visits, met the author and expressed her admiration.
Onassis, at the time, just happened to be an editor at Doubleday, When Onassis learned of a decadesold manuscript that had been laid aside, she urged West to pick up the work again, West later dedicated this book "To the memory of my editor, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Though there was never such a mismatched pair in appearance, we were perfect partners, " The authors selected from the Gazette columns that West wrote over the three decades, those on people, events, and nature seemed to have the greatest historic, artistic, or

philosophical import.
Librarian Note: There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name, sitelink See this thread for information, Dorothy West was a novelist and short story writer who was part of the Harlem Renaissance, She is best known for her novel The Living Is Easy, about the life of an upper class black family, Wests principal contribution to the Harlem Renaissance was to publish the magazine Challenge, which she founded inwith, She also published the magazines successor, New Challenge, These magazines were among the first to publish literature featuring realistic portrayals of African Americans, Among the works published were Richard Wrights groundbreaking essay Blueprint for Negro Writing, together with writings by Margare Librarian Note: There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
sitelink See this thread for information, Dorothy West was a novelist and short story writer who was part of the Harlem Renaissance, She is best known for her novel The Living Is Easy, about the life of an upper class black family, West's principal contribution to the Harlem Renaissance was to publish the magazine Challenge, which she founded inwith, She also published the magazines successor, New Challenge, These magazines were among the first to publish literature featuring realistic portrayals of African Americans, Among the works published were Richard Wright's groundbreaking essay "Blueprint for Negro Writing," together with writings by Margaret Walker and Ralph Ellison, After both magazines folded because of insufficient financing, West worked for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project until the mids, During this time she wrote a number of short stories for the New York Daily News, She then moved to Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, where she wrote her first novel, The Living Is Easy, Published in, her novel was well received critically but did not sell many copies, In the four decades after, West worked as a journalist, primarily writing for a small newspaper on Martha's Vineyard, Ina feminist press brought The Living Is Easy back into print, giving new attention to West and her role in the Harlem Renaissance, As a result of this attention, at ageWest finally finished a second novel, titled The Wedding, Published in, the novel was a best seller and resulted in the publication of a collection of West's short stories and reminiscences called The Richer, the Poorer, Oprah Winfrey turned the novel into a two part television miniseries, The Wedding TV miniseries, sitelink.